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Posted By:
Kalena
171 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://ciarannorris.co.uk)
Category: SEM Industry
"Where Yahoo is really ahead of the competition is with its photo (and now video) sharing site, flickr. And if they could increase the number of people paying for premium membership, well, maybe that would be enough to push Ballmer into putting his hands (further) into his pockets."
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I'm not really sure that Microsoft will ever put more money on the table, but still find it amazing that Yahoo could be making such a basic mistake...
I think there's a lot more good SEO stuff Flickr could be doing other than just canonicalization. Encouraging better tagging, more content on photos, and offering more embed capabilities to bloggers that provide links back to Flickr would be the tip of the iceberg. I just don't know whether 50,000 more Flickr subs would change MS's bid all that much. After all, they're really not buying Yahoo! to get Flickr or Upcoming or any of those. They want market share in search.
Rand - the whole MSN thing was kind of tongue in cheek. And yes, there's heaps more they could be doing. But breaking rules they penalise other sites for is enough for the moment.